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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02
GENERAL PARAGRAPHS.

Lend Commissioner Sparks does not seem
to have any better luck with Acting Secretary
Muldrow than he had with Secretary Lamar.
In two cases, ono of q timber culture and tho
other homestead entry, both in Dakota, the
commissioner has been badly sat down upon.
Tho unwilling of the statue of Cuanho-
tomac, the last of tho Aztec emperors, in the
City of Mexico, was an occasion of unusual
interest and significance Very few Mexicans
ands OF Indians, many of whom came from
miles around the capital, bringing with them
great quantities of flowers, attended the cere-
mony. When President Diaz unveiled the
statue the spectators cast flowers upon the
pedestal in such profusion as almost to hide
it.
Canvassers Geo. A. Brooks, Sena or Bone
steel and County Clerk Nelson, of Niobrara,
Neb, heard the statement of the election
board of Creighton precinct recently, all of
whom refused to be sworn; also the testimony
of prominent citizens of the precinct, and
| rendered decision giving the county seat to
Niobrara by IA ma jority. Hundreds of ciizens
examined the mutlated poll books and all
agree that it was clear case of forgery and
ballot box stuffing. Great indignation pre-
vailed among al parties. Several arrests will
TO low.
The delegates from Harrison county, Ia,
to the state convention have been instructed
to support Judge c. H. Lewis for supreme
judge
81 F. Riley, an Omaha Bee rep ,rter, was
arrested by Detective Neigh on telegram of
instruction from Pinkertons detective agency
Riley was charged with the embezzlement of
10000 from the Union Trust company of
Philadelphia. After his arrest Edward l.
Perkins, counsel and director of the Union
Trust company, arrived In Omaha and as soon
as he saw Riley said he was not the man
wanted. Riley was released. He at once
brought suit against the Trust company for
$40, coo damages personal service being Sc
cured on Perkins, the company's agent
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02

the Rev. Calvin z. Stowe. D. D. Mrs.
Stowe wrote several tales and sketches,
which were afterward collected under the
title of the MAY Flower" 1919. In 1850
she contributed to the National Era, an
anti-slavery paper published at Washing
ton, "Uncle Toms Cabin" as serial.
This story followed shortly afterward lin
1852 in book form, and met with merited
success, 3l3, 900 copies being sold in the
United States within the short space of
three years and half, and in all, over
half million copies, including German
edition. In Great Britain its sale was
more than twenty languages, including
Welch, Russian, Armenian, Arabic. Chi
nese, and japanese; there were fourteen
different German, and four different French
versions, and it has been dramatized in
various forms. Mrs. Stowe subsequently
published a Peep Into Uncle Toms
Cabin, for Children" 1858; "a Key to
Uncle Toms Cabin" giving the original
facts and statements on which that work
was based, 1855; and "The Christian
Slave" drama founded upon Uncle
Tom Cabin" 1856. "Uncle Sans Eman-
cipation" was issued in 1858, and in the
same year she visited Europe, publishing
in the year following Sunny Memories of
orelgn Lands. little work entitled
"Geography for My Children was pub
lished in 1855, and the next year appeared
her second anti slavery novel, "Dred, q
Tale of the Dismal Swamp" republished
in 1859 under the title of nina Gordon. {"
In subsequent works Mrs. Stowe has de-
lineated the domestic life of New England
of fifty or ore hundred years ago. Her
other published works are: sour Charley
and What to Do with Him." 1859; "The
Pearl of Orrs Island." 1862; "Agnes of
Sorrento" 1868; "The Rayages Of Car
pet, Religious Poens," Stories About
Our Dogs Little Foxes" Queer Little
People, "The Chimney Corner" "Men of
Our Times" My Wife and l." "a Dogs
Mission" etc. Mrs. Stoves home is in
Hartford, Conn, but she passes much of
her time in Florida, where she possesses an
extensive Grange plantation.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02
INDUSIItIAL Would.

The strawboard manufacturer of the
United States have formed strust" A
number of mills have been purchased, and
will be permanently shut down. aud tho re-
mainder will be operated by the trust, thus
doing away with all semblance o, comp clifton
in the business. The promoters of the
scheme explain that its purpos' is to give
consumer g cheaper strawboard-yhich would,
of course, have been taken br granted.
Every body understands that the sole object
Of "trusts" is to benefit the publc.
Dor, New York, elected eleven delegates to
the general assembly, which meets in Min
neapols in October, ten of whom are OPP
posed to General Master Workman Powderly's
administration.
The Dubuque board of trade has passed
resolutions calling upon political parties in
Iowa to elect such mon to the legislature this
winter as will favor a measure pro Getting the
jobbers and manufacturers of the state from
railroad exaction. The presence of sixty
three railroad attorneys in the legislature was
regarded significant and full of danger to the
commercial interests of the state. All boards
of trade in Iowa will be requested to pass
similar resolutions. This movement is de-
signed to be entirely non-p partisan. 1t is said
unless some relief is afforded Iowa jobbcrs
and manufacturers will be compelled to go
out of business within two years.
Gov. Larrabee of Iowa, has appointed
tho following delegates to attend the seventh
annual session of the National Farmers con-
gress, which conyenes in Chicago Nov. 10:
Delegates at large ]. B. Grinnell and B. T.
Clayton; district delegates, Edward Cam sbell,
Jr., Jefferson county;J. W. Miles, Jackson;
William M. Fields, Blackhawk; Buell. Shcr-
man, Chickasaw; James Wilson, Tama; l. d.
Newell, Wapello; 4. G. Webb, Polk: j. ].
Burns, Decatur; Oliver Mills, Cass; John A.
Hall, Boone; Charles E. Whiting, Monona,
President Chamberlain, of tho state agricul-
tural college, is delegate by virtue OF his
Office.
The grand legion of Nebraska, Ancicnt t
Order of United Workmen, met at Omaha re-
Gently, and perfected a permanent organiza-
ton by the election of officers and adopting
bylaws. Fourteen of the eighteen legions in
Nebraska were represented Supreme Com
mander Reed, of Topeka, Kan, formed the
organization.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02
FROM WASHINGTON.

"A Washington dispatch says the president
has now resided in the executive mansion
long enough to devise labor-saving system
for the performance of his official duties. He
is no longer the overworked president he was
during the first twelve or eighteen months OF
his administration, and his work is go sys-
tematized that he has ample tine for rest and
self-improvement He Is considerably more
of poll ician now than he was two years ago,
and his knowledge of men and measures has
become quite extensive within the past twent,-
four months. One Of his personal friends, in
conversation on this subject few days ago,
remarked that the president now has different
ideas Of many subj cts from those enter
tanned by him when he fl rst entered the white
house.
President Blanco of Venezuela, who is
now in the United States, declares that the
English are trying to get control Of that
country Their seizures of territory along
the Oronoco have caused suspension of re-
lations between Venezuela and England, and
the former has applied to the United States
government to act as an arbitrator Presi-
dent Blanco expresses surprise that the at
tempt OF European power to gain foothold
in South America should DO regarded with
such Indifference in the United States.
The comptroller of the currency declared
the first dividend of Is per cent in favor of
the creditors of the First National bank of
Livingston, Montana, on Claims proved
amounting to $685. $50
Secretary Whitney has appointed a board
of officers to examine the plans submitted by
an English ship building firm for the con-
struction of one of the war vessels authorized
by the last congress-.
The acknowledgement has received dis
patch from Maj. Randlett, of the Ninth in
fantry, in command of Fort Duchesne, under
date of August 16, saying that word received
from reliable agency employee on the 18th
was to the effect that everything was all right
on Blue mountains. The whites seem to
think that the people around Meekor are
badly scared He had seen nobody who knows
anything from Meeker. The Indians living
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02
DAKOTA NEWS.
In Day county crops are immense.
Webster has band of gypsias as

In Day county crops are immense.
Webster has band of gypsiss as its
guests.
-Minnehaha county will have no fail
this year.
The Aberdeen Pioneer has entered
upon its seventh year.
Father O'Grady, pastor OF the Vermil-
lion Catholic church, is dead.
The excavation for the new Episcopal
church at Huron has begun.
A Scandinavian newspaper will prob
ably be started at Aberdeen.
Aberdeen has 444 school children and
in Brown county there are 1881.
Sitting Bull will be one of the attrac-
tons of the North Dakota fair.
Tho division campaign will be opened
by Gen. Campbell at NIilbank September s..
M. II. Day announces himself as out
of politics, and heavily into Black Hills
mining.
-"How women may be pretty" is one
of the articles in the last number of Conk-
Inns Dakotdidn, q slight deviation from
the judges anti-monopely text.
Col. M. w. Sheafe, friend of Gov.
Church, says the governor did not believe
the trustees guilty and wound not prose-
cute them, but thought they ought to
resign.
The receipts at the assay office in New
York of Dakota gold bullion was during the
last year $500, 020.49, of silver 1922, 5s1.
Dividends declared during 1856 by the
mining companies were $732,5oO.
And now President Bliss, of the Da-
kota board of agriculture, will invite Presi-
dent Cleveland to attend the territorial
fair and make an address over the big
pumpkins and other produce Of Dakota.
Reports have been received at Fort
Thompson that the Duluth, Watertown
and Pacific railroad has surveying party
en- route to that point via Woolsey.
Mayor Ames, of Minneapolis, arrived at
Big Stone City with his family by special
car the other day, and in the evening his
son, Charles G. Amcs, and Miss Jessie
Bryant were joined in the bonds of matri-
mony, Rev. Charles A. Arthur officiating.
The ceremony took place in the pa,lors of
the st. Charles hotel in the presence of a
number of friends of the contracting
parties.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02
PERSONAL.

Willard G.. B .bcock, who was myster-
iously shot at Gardner, ILL.,, is dead
g. e. Bartlett, cashier Of Sumter National
bank. at Sumter, S. c., has disappeared, and
it i, ascertained has absconded with about
$4,000. The bank has suspended temporarily,
but can stand the loss.
DIR. Parker, of the City temple, London,
has sailed for the United States. Hewill pro-
nounce eulogy upon the late Mr. B,echer at
Plymouth church, Brooklyn, next month, and
it is not impossible that he may become Mr.,
Beecher's successor
Miss Josie Barnard, Lowell heress, was
married to her grandmother's c1chman a
year or two ago. She now finds herself re-
du ,ed to dcstltution, ana has just returned to
Lowell from Providence on q ticket Furnished
by the overseers of the poor Young ladies
with weakness for coachmen slould paste
this item in their hats.
Baron Blanc, now Italian ambassador at
Constan inople, will take the foreign portfolio
at Rome. Heis stanch friend OF Germany.
Mrs. Viii lam Ogle, of Newburgh, n. Y,
who has just died, was the motter of ten
children, six of them deaf-mutes qeither Of
the parents was thus afflicted.
Emperor William is so i'll that it aas been
arranged that the king of saxony will repre-
sent him at the Konigsburg maneurers The
official bulletin says that The emperor caught
cola during sudden change in fha weather,
and that the chief symptoms of his present
indisposiiion are occasional rhoumitism. g
r. A. Hoyt, cashier of the Putrm County
SAVING bank, of Carmel, N. Y, is, defaulter
in the amount OF S25 900.
Prof. Spencer f. Baird, of he United
States fish commission, is dead,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02
TILE FAR EAST.

1t is officially announced that the govern
ment has sent circular to the powers de-
claring thatitis unable to recognize the validity
Of Prince Ferdinands election to the throne
Of Bulgaria. According to the circular Prince
Ferdinand acquainted the car with the facts
of his election and requested permission to
visit St Petersburg in order to learn the
czar's wishes before going to Bulgaria. Tho
car replied that the princes election would
not be recognized by Russia, and the prince
could by no pretext justify his journey to
Bulgaria. The circular, in conclusion, ex-
presses the hope that the Bulgarian people
will coincide with Russian views and not per-
init the fragrant violation of the Berlin treaty.
According to semi-ofical statement,
Prince Ferdinands proclamation has been
wrongly understood. The prince never pro-
claimed Bulgaria's political independence, and
he has always been ready to respect the
Berlin treaty.
In regard to tho governments action in
proclaiming the national league the London
Times, Standard, Telegraph and Chronicle
approves the governments course. The Irish
Times conservative. says: scThe law abiding
people of Ireland will regard the step taken
by the governments as one that was inevitable"
The Freemam's Journal, nationalist says:
''The government felt in danger of collapse
through pure impotence, and, like all weak
people, concluded that they ought to make
show of strength in proportion as they felt
the support of public opinion in England de-
sorting them; and endeavor to promote dis
order in Ireland"
Letters have been received at London
from Henry M. Stanley, dated June 10, from
Gambruja, village near the rapids of
Aruwmai, reporting himself and party all
well.
chamberlain and T. w. Russell have with
drawn from the unionist party in consequence
of the procIaiming of the Irish National
league.
-Parnel says that the action Of the gov
eminent in proclaiming the Irish National
league was a gratultous insult to the Irish,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02

at the agencies are undisturbed and are oil at
home Old Colorow is said to be hunting in
tho mountains of Colorado, and Young Colo
row, his son, is with McAndrews, the employ
from whom the word was received
Offers of the sale of four and one-half
per cent bonds to the government, r ceived
at the treasury department amount to IS, $780,
ooo The rates ranged from 100 to no. Sec
rotary Fairchid has accepted the offer OF
Harvey Fisk & Sons, to sell $1,000, zoo in
coupon, and 81, SOY, OOo in registered four and
one-half per cents, at 100 44-1OO. All other
bids were rejected. 1t is stated at the treasury
department that the government has made
saving of s242 l25 in interest, in buying 81
500, 600 four and one-half bonds at apremium
of 81 90 44-1OQ
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02
The Trap Would Be a SafesHa

well, what on earth do you So
that old lady up in ITO wants now
has just rung again, said a clerk IN Z
the largest hotels in Saratoga to 'he
proprietor, who had been several I'LL
pealed to to crafty the whims OF IL
al old lady guest. J..
well, I don't know. Wha: dol
want?"
she wants o mouse trap.
We'll, get her mouse-trap.
But you know there never was :
seen on that floor since the Iou'
built. .,
What difference does that make
the circumspect boniface. IT'S nola .
that she wants, it's mouse-trap; St'
mouse trap" n.,,
The clerk sent right out, got 'nl g1
mouse-trap for 10 cents, and tAe oI
was comfortable in mind for SEVERN |
Tile tSaratogian.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02
Making Fir Pillows.

Summer visitors have gone 10 u.
regions with bags and baskets ~ "
lection of the fragrant boushs. AZ .,
ginning of the craze tor fir pllloN,s sI'
no discrimination used in SATISFY
demand. Now experienced ". w
choose the boughs which have Oe sat
pungency by sea-breezes, ana En-
green boughs for a scientific drylI -, :
The young cones are gathered o lv1
namentation of the cottage.-boS'V'
nal.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02
THE CHATsWORTH HORROR,

Noble and Unsclfish Conduct of the W omen.
From the stories of eye-witnesses, the
conduct of the women in the railway acct
dent at Chatsworth was extremely credita-
BILE. Those who died met death with
heroic bravery, and those who were for
sunate enough to escape did SO only
after rendering those ABOUT them
all the aid possible. There are
some who are made strong by great
dangers or emergencies. The Chatsworth
women are of this sort and dozens of them
had hardly extricated themselves from the
wreck before they busted themselves car
ing for the wounded and smoothing the
PILLOWS pillows Of the dying. The attending ply,
many of the wounded solely to the minis
tering care of the noble and unselfsh
women.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE.
"A Sketch and Portrait OF tho
Authorizes of "Uncle Toms
Cabin"

The famous authoress of "Uncle Toms
Cabin, Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe. OIL
though still able to go about her Connectl-
cut home and take short walks for exercise,
is failing rapidly in health and strength.
She is the daughter of Lyman Beecher, and
was born at Litchfeld, Connecticut, on
June Is. 1911. She was Interested and as
sociated with her sister Catherine in the
labors of q school OF Hartford in 1927,
afterward removing to Walnut Hill, near
Cincinnati. She was married in 1882 to
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02
Plenty to Eat and Drlnh'

At o barbecue and lot sale near olI
City, Mo.,a few days ago the .he ' erl
provisions were furnished Tor .n ~ ant
attendance: -Four of the largeS'h sd
test corn-fed beeves obtalnaole - s1
properly roasted; with these % 'ed 10 d, .
tons, six,large hogs, also cooAeIh resd
ton. There were 800 loaves o. W.. u Of
barrels of potato salad. half ,Daa.lnaoynad
les. half dozen barrels OF lem ;a h,
thirty six barrels of beef KEPT ot " ssr
pounds of ice. 1t is needless, a,,rnaI
every lot was sold.-Boston ooe
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02

SEEDY party Ito bartender)-Your
refusal, sir, to trust me to q paltrv
drink OF whisky fills me with astonish-
ment and indignation. Bartender
AZ right, sir; you can fill yourself up
win astonishment and indignation.
and it won't cost you cent; but if Won
Tant to fill up with whisky YOU will
have to have cash.-Mida's Criterio,,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02

considering the present condition Of Ireland.
twas merely move to cover he weakness
OF the land bill If the bill did not protect
the tenants from eviction, trouble would be
inevitable during the coming winter.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-02

a YOUNG man named Necessity has
Just been admitted to the bar in Penn
sylvanla. He should adopt some other
profession, for necessity knows no Law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-23
Indians At The Play.
New York Sun.

At a recent performance of "Faust'' at
the Lyceaum theater in London, the two
stage boxes were filled, through the cour~
tesy of Mr.. Irving, with the Indian wom-
en- from Buffalo Bills show. now encamp
ed at South Kensington. They were
literally in full feather. The grostesque
toggery afforded striking contrast to
the brilliant conventional evening toilets
of an English audience. Through the
first act the Indians watched the spec
tacle upon the stage with curious inter
est, though it could only have been to
them frightful pantomime, and main
tanned an unbroken and uudaunted front
with hundred glasses leveled at them
from the house. Later on the glare and
noise and close air began to tell upon the
elder women, who winked and blinked,
and dropped off to sleep, slipping down
out of sight. The youthful members of
the distinguished company were more
nearly equal to the occasion, and with
staring gaze evidently observed and en-
joyed the audience quite as much as the
play.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-06-23
LIQUID FUEL AT SEA.

A New Scheme to do Away With Coal in Ocean
Steamers.
London Times.
A further important advance has Just
been made in using hydro carbons for
steam raising purposes on board ships. A
Legitimate objection TO the adoption of
hq uitl fuel at sea under certain circum-
stances has been that the use of steam for
the diffusion of the Oil in the boiler fur
onaces entails q considerable loss of fresh
water from the boilers. AS the water has
to be made good by salt water on long
ocean voyages, the density of the water is
rapidly raised to dangerous point. This
is, however, entirely overcome by the sys-
tenn adopted in the steamship Charles
Howard, owned by Messrs. Alfred Stuart
d Co., which has recently been fitted with
tanks for carrying refined petroleum in
hulk and also with Tarbutt's system of
burning residual oils under the boilers in
place Of coal. She lis $40 feet in length,
with 80 feet beam and % feet depth of
hold. The whole o. the cargo space in
the vessel is occupied by tanks for carry
ing the refined petroleum, while the re-
fuse oil to be used eor fuel is carried in
the water-ballast tanks. Her boiler is of
the ordinary marine type, with three
diues of feet 6 inches diameter each.
These fues are fitted with brick COM
bustion chamber and super-heater, as in
the, case of other vessels fitted with the
Tarbutt system. Another point of de-
parture in the present instance consists III
the substitution OF highly heated and ex-
banded compressed air for the steam Or
sdinarily used in liquid fuel fires. The
steam used for COMPRISING the air is
exhausted into the condenser, the water
from which is, of course, available for
feeding along With the condensed from
the main engines. Ehe Charles Howard
left the Tyne dock Last Saturday for the
BlaokiSea, and as she steamed down the
ciEer at full speed not'a particle of smoke
was visible from tie funnel, the fires
working admirably from the first start.
1t is stated that the owners propose to fit
the remainder Of their fleet with similar
apparatus. The storage of the oil in the
water ballast tanks has, we believe, never
before been introduced in practice. It is
sn important feature, as it saves the ship
owners the heavy expenditure Incidental
to the fitting of tanks in the bunker
spaces, and combined with the substita-
tiOa OF air for steam, marks a decide de-
paTture in liqui fuel practice.